On November 13th, the Brazilian Patent Office (BRPTO) and the Chinese Patent Office (SIPO) signed a memorandum of understanding establishing the basis for a future PPH program between both institutes.

Bottom line is that the PTO needs to increase substantially the number of examiners first.

The Brazilian Patent Office (BRPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) signed yesterday a memorandum of understanding setting the basis of a future PPH program between both institutes.

No dia 14 de agosto de 2018, foi sancionada a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados

On March 2018, the UKIPO and Oxentia (Oxford University's Global Innovation Consultancy) launched a version of the Lambert Toolkit in Brazil.

E-commerce sales in 2014 in Brazil should grow by 27% in relation to 2013 and reach almost R$ 40 billion.

On December 9, 2014, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office introduced its new Trademark Manual.

The most interesting aspect of this "innovation" is the concern of the PTO with the end user.

The Brazilian PTO published on May 9th, 2018 Rule # 217/2018, which modifies former Rule # 80/2013 related to the fast-track examination of patent applications related to pharmaceutical...

In 2014, Brazil introduced legislation that established principles, guarantees, rights and duties for internet use in the country - the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet.

The Brazilian Government is considering an emergency measure to eliminate the Patent Office's chronic backlog problem by automatically granting 230,000 pending applications by 2020.

With the purpose of protecting intimacy and privacy, the new Law now requires a court order for the records of user access to be supplied. This results in the placing of a barrier to holders of infringed industrial property rights.

The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) recently rejected a request for a Certificate of Good Manufacturing Practices from Brazil's largest pharmaceutical company-EMS.

In Brazil, where the average time to grant a patent is 10 years, industrial design is seen by many as a protection mechanism with a simple procedure and rapid grant that takes about one year.

The NETmundial conference held in 2014 was a multi-stakeholder initiative seeking solutions based on collaboration for a distributed ecosystem of Internet governance.

The President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, promulgated, on 8 July 2019, Law No. 13.853 of 8 July 2019, Amending Law No. 13.709 of 14 August 2018 (‘LGPD'), to Provide for the Protection of ...

The Brazilian PTO has published the Resolution #184/2017 that establishes the Brazil-Japan Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program.

Since November 26, 2015, Applicants declare, when filing a patent application in Brazil, if the claimed invention derives or not from access to Brazilian genetic heritage or traditional knowledge.

An unexpected notification issued by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) of India in recent weeks caused an uproar among trademark owners in that country.

O Brasil deu um novo e importante passo rumo ao Protocolo de Madri, com a apresentação, nesta semana, do projeto de adequação do INPI ao sistema internacional de registro de marcas.